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surfblue63 wrote:

WMU 211G wrote:'New Death Star prototype launched by innocenti...'

The Death Star is situated at the Farnesina Palace in Rome. Originally the sculpture was part of the Italian Pavilion at 1967 Montreal EXPO and was created by Arnaldo Pomodoro

You know some stuff Stu!

Not a particularly brilliant photo this but I like it, took it at Stanford Hall a few years ago, Chris Evans lookalike Nick H of this parish regretting selling the Fiesta Yellow beauty...!

WMU 211G wrote:

surfblue63 wrote:

WMU 211G wrote:'New Death Star prototype launched by innocenti...'

The Death Star is situated at the Farnesina Palace in Rome. Originally the sculpture was part of the Italian Pavilion at 1967 Montreal EXPO and was created by Arnaldo Pomodoro

You know some stuff Stu!

No, not really. I looked up Italian sculptors based in Milan, home of Innocenti, and got lucky.

Just had a quick trawl of the interweb for picture people may not have seen before

This one has a Beatles connection. See web site for story http://beatlesbentley.com/


BMC Showroom in Piccadilly, circa 1964


Psychedelic Mk2


Will Sparrow on the 1972 Welsh

The Bentley is often misdescribed as 'John Lennon's Rolls Royce'.

Stewart & Ardern promo Mk2, 1968...
S&A Sprint...
Cathy McGowan and her John Sprinzel Mk2...

WMU 211G wrote:

surfblue63 wrote:

WMU 211G wrote:'New Death Star prototype launched by innocenti...'

The Death Star is situated at the Farnesina Palace in Rome. Originally the sculpture was part of the Italian Pavilion at 1967 Montreal EXPO and was created by Arnaldo Pomodoro

You know some stuff Stu!

Not a particularly brilliant photo this but I like it, took it at Stanford Hall a few years ago, Chris Evans lookalike Nick H of this parish regretting selling the Fiesta Yellow beauty...!

Mk1 Morris Cooper 1071 S #1.jpg

Lived on the Wirral with the original restorer for a number of years and appeared on the Club Mini Classics stand at shows many times. Then moved on to another owner in the Club before Nick bought it!

Will Sparrow photos are not the 72 Welsh. Almost certainly the 72 Tour of Dean at start at Aust Services at Severn Bridge. What was the source of the caption? (because it's not the first time it's come up).

fricsman wrote:
Lived on the Wirral with the original restorer for a number of years and appeared on the Club Mini Classics stand at shows many times. Then moved on to another owner in the Club before Nick bought it!

Thanks - it's a peach, very nice car

Nice Mk2 850 / 1000 with a Webasto in this London shot...
I'd love to replicate this in 1 : 1 scale...
Original and photoshopped...
The new nippy zippy Austin and Morris twins...

Just todays value of some of the number plates we see on the old car photos here is amazing. 5122 ME for example - for Michael Edwardes, the mad axe-man of Leyland.

Sandra Howard (shown above and still delicious today.....) contacted me some years ago following a newspaper thread to tell me that the girl on the light blue Cooper and S brochure wasn't another car-girl (Susan Carpenter) of the era but her friend, Mary Burrows

LMM76C wrote:Will Sparrow photos are not the 72 Welsh. Almost certainly the 72 Tour of Dean at start at Aust Services at Severn Bridge. What was the source of the caption? (because it's not the first time it's come up).

http://www.garyjonesrallypics.co.uk/Ret ... llery3.htm


I think you are right because Will Sparrows number on the '72 Welsh was 4

https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/2910 ... ally-1972/

WMU 211G wrote:The Bentley is often misdescribed as 'John Lennon's Rolls Royce'.

Stewart & Ardern promo Mk2, 1968...

S&A MF 3973A923.jpg

That building is the Chelsea Drugstore from the Stones number You Can't Always Get What You Want.


It's now a McDonalds, so I guess it still applies!

surfblue63 wrote:

LMM76C wrote:Will Sparrow photos are not the 72 Welsh. Almost certainly the 72 Tour of Dean at start at Aust Services at Severn Bridge. What was the source of the caption? (because it's not the first time it's come up).

http://www.garyjonesrallypics.co.uk/Ret ... llery3.htm


I think you are right because Will Sparrows number on the '72 Welsh was 4

https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/2910 ... ally-1972/

I know I'm right, as I was in the scrutineering queue on the 72 Welsh just behind Sparrow, where we both had a row with the dictatorial scrutineer over the legality of the "works" type 4 lamp bar. I was also on the 72 Tour of Dean.

Found this shot of Tottenham Court Road in the '70s, was not sure if to post here or in the '70s mods thread as it has the obligatory 'glass Clubman front.

I like those Gerry Anderson 'UFO' wheel trims...

Very nice set up on this show

More Police Mini

UHR850 wrote:Very nice set up on this show

Motor Show - Earls Court (1964)
"Morris Mini Super revolving on stand and it comes away into four sections.
The engine of the Mini cut in two."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1_X_nYfn8c









These BMC Motor Show stand sectioned moving cut-a-ways were quite amazing.....
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Team Unipart



Monte Carlo or Bust

surfblue63 wrote:Team Unipart



Monte Carlo or Bust

Looks like a Don Parker trailer, did the works always use those?

From The Italian Job, an early scene shot in Portobello Road, just spotted the Moke in the background...

Car Mart Ltd, 382 Streatham High Road, SW16